The report says the patients, 2 males, 53 and 56 years of age, are being treated at Joaquin Pablo Franco Sayas Hospital, in Las Tablas city, with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in critical condition.

The Los Santos provincial regional Health Director, Nahir Cedeno says so far this year, 62 cases of hantavirus have been diagnosed, of which 47 per cent had the syndrome HPS and the rest had hantavirus fever. It is not reported as to how the men contracted the disease.

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